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After about 2 or 3 years away from Linux, I busted it back out when my free trial of Windows 7 expired. The first problem I ran into, as many do, is getting the wireless LAN to work. I didn't find a thread relating to this exact laptop, and had to do a bit of research of my own to find the answer, so I figured I'd post a quick howto for anyone else running into this problem.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1376576

I needed to install my canon mp620 printer and didnt find good drivers
so by combining some post from different forums i got a sollution for my problem
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...=canon+printer
http://www.nervous.it/2009/04/canon-...ess-on-ubuntu/

Question:

I suppose this should go here seeing that desktops don't have batteries normally.

Just upgraded... everything is going ok for the most part. Just noticed that the battery charging state/ plugged in icon is displaying what I can only assume is the default icons and not the icons in my pack which displayed fine in jaunty (of course). Does anyone have any clue as to the issue here. I'm guessing the battery applet is not looking for the icon in the same place as in juanty. Any ideas?

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1270382

This solution comes from the other thread on this and other forums. This turns out to be pretty easy because the code is already written, it's just not on the canonical distro.

The fix is easy, I just wrote it wordy so that everyone could follow it.

So, to fix it in ubuntu 9.04 (jaunty), do the following:

Question:

I recently installed Xubuntu 9.04 on an Acer Aspire 2930Z. The only issue is that I can't get any sound working on the front ports (where the headphone, microphone and line-in ports are). This is an annoyance since I use my headphones all the time. How can I get this to work?
NOTE: I have used both Ubuntu and Kubuntu on this and they don't work either with the front ports.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1281226
I have been tearing my hair out for the last few weeks trying to get the internal mic working on my Acer. At first modifying the /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file with various options but there were issues with noise and distortion. Finally I installed the Realtek Alsa driver for the sound card. Thanks to alpho2k blog on ALSA in Ubuntu

Question:

Hi @ all,

I was just trying to install Kubuntu 9.04 64-bit on my new machine as a second OS (I need Vista for video-editing). I have a Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD4 board with an Intel Core i7 CPU and two SATA-HDs connected to the Gigabyte SATA-ports.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1256630

How I setup my Brother MFC-255cw printer/scanner in Jaunty. I could not find these instructions elsewhere, so maybe this will help someone.

PRINTING/
Download the latest driver from: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/
direct link: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/e...html#MFC-255CW

Question:

I recently bought a PC from Zazz with Ubuntu installed on it.
For the most part it is going very well.
Got most of the applications I need up and running, but I'm having some trouble with flash videos in Firefox.

This is my first time using Linux as my primary OS, so although I do know some stuff, I'm far from an expert.